There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.

I say to myself: "Who are you to measure infinite power?

Cities are the abyss of the human species.

I will say little of the importance of a good education; nor will I stop to prove that the current one is bad. Countless others have done so before me, and I do not like to fill a book with things everybody knows. I will note that for the longest time there has been nothing but a cry against the established practice without anyone taking it upon himself to propose a better one. The literature and the learning of our age tend much more to destruction than to edification.